Andrew Obernesser Email & Phone Number

Greater Syracuse-Auburn Area

As part of the Inclusive Growth team at CenterState CEO, I manage a team of place-based, neighborhood economic development professionals dedicated to increasing the prosperity of historically marginalized communities and individuals. I help forge partnerships across the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors to facilitate property investments, small.

The Central New York Land Trust is a membership-supported organization working to protect and preserve valuable natural landscapes in Onondaga and Oswego Counties. For more than forty years, CNYLT (and its successor organization, Save the County) has worked with property owners, partner organizations and agencies, and hundreds of volunteers to create and.

Syracuse, New York Area

As a Planner at EDR, I worked with communities across New York State to plan for change, manage and leverage their growth, and develop their resources in ways that best suit their particular needs. I worked on and managed a variety of projects, including brownfield redevelopment, neighborhood master planning, environmental impact assessments.

Working with ERC's evaluation unit, I developed a series of evaluation instruments for UWEX/ Discovery Farms for their statewide Nutrient Management Planning program. These instruments assess the efficacy of UWEX’s outreach efforts on the reduction of agricultural nutrient loading in Wisconsin’s surface waters. I was also involved in a USDA-sponsored.

In my time at the TUSA Lab, I researched multimodal traffic congestion along the freight networks of the upper Midwest. These efforts focused on identifying bottleneck locations on highway, rail, and waterborne networks and working toward the creation of a decision support system to encourage cooperation between stakeholders in their alleviation efforts.

While volunteering with Water Star, I researched incentive-based environmental conservation programs, helped to coordinate professional working group discussions, and assisted the steering committee in determining the scope of the program.

As a Structural Drafter at Mc/Sal, I prepared contract drawings from design development through as-built construction documents, and assisted with project coordination between the architectural, engineering, and production teams.

I served as the first sales representative of a M&G's fabrication supply division, developing the client base while researching, testing, and marketing stone processing equipment to fabricators throughout New England.

M.S., Urban & Regional Planning

Activities and Societies: Executive Committee, APA Wisconsin Chapter (student representative) Campus Transportation Committee Bus Program.

Certificate, Construction

B.A., Sociology